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Download full textPendergrass, Susan – EdChoice, 2023
Open enrollment is a form of school choice that gives families the opportunity to choose an educational setting or school within the public school system that is best for their children. In U.S. public school districts, students typically must attend the school that is in their neighborhood and often do not have a choice of attending a different…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Policy, Open Enrollment
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2019
Creating smart, coherent education policy is painstaking work; there are technical, budgetary, and political challenges at almost every turn. But it is some of the most important work that state leaders can undertake. As Ohioans prepared to elect a new governor in late 2018, we at the Fordham Institute began rolling out a set of policy proposals…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy, State Policy
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2012
Student mobility is the phenomenon of students in grades K-12 changing schools for reasons other than customary promotion from elementary school to middle school or from middle school to high school. This non-promotional school change can occur during the school year or in the summer between school years. It may involve residential change, school…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewedWronkovich, Michael; Robinson, James; Hess, Caryl A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
A survey of students at three Ohio high schools explored reasons for movement to other schools through state-legislated open-enrollment provisions. Response analysis identified five trends: students with unmet expectations, students with fulfilled expectations, students seeking safety, students desiring to stay at their "home school,"…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, High Schools, Open Enrollment, School Choice
Peer reviewedFowler, Frances C. – Educational Policy, 1996
In 1993-94, Ohio implemented an interdistrict open-enrollment policy, allowing student transfers only to adjacent districts. Districts can be open or closed, but cannot prevent transfers. A 1994 survey found that open districts were small, rural, racially homogeneous districts with declining enrollment. Closed districts were suburban, with…
Descriptors: Crowding, Educational Supply, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System
Fowler, Frances C. – 1996
This paper presents findings of a study that analyzed participation patterns and the movement of students and state funds in Ohio during the 1993-94 school year, the first year during which Ohio's interdistrict open-enrollment law was fully implemented. The theoretical framework for the study was drawn from economics and business theories of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Educational Economics, Educationally Disadvantaged
